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pragmatism


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Pragmatism  \Prag"ma*tism\,  n. 
  The  quality  or  state  of  being  pragmatic;  in  literature,  the 
  pragmatic,  or  philosophical,  method. 
 
  The  narration  of  this  apparently  trifling  circumstance 
  belongs  to  the  pragmatism  of  the  history.  --A.  Murphy. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  pragmatism 
  n  :  the  doctrine  that  practical  consequences  are  the  criteria  of 
  knowledge  and  meaning  and  value 




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